Living in my hometown I find that sometimes im stopped on the street by ppl who know me from donkey's years back but I havnt the foggiest who the fuck they are. I think the reason is because im a 6ft 5 guy whose face hasnt changed all that much from when I was a child, So im the kind of guy ppl tend to remember. What makes it worse is that as a teenager I was quite a private person who didnt mix or give a fuck about ppl who wernt my friends. (As a preteen I was the total oppersite and would play with kids I didnt know)
So what usually happens is that I get stopped by someguy who says hes an old school/ childhood friend, (their definition of friend is different to mine, otherwise ild know who they were) and we end up having this wierd conversation with them trying to make me remember who they are which I know isnt going to happen since I dont recognise their name and I sure as hell arnt gonna recognise a face thats now in its 30s is balding and has a full beard.
Nowadays I generally make up an excuse and walk away but which is better then what I did in the past and pretend to know they are. Ive found out that besides looking like a prick, I risk running into them at a later date and which makes me a bigger prick when I tell them the truth that I dont know who they are. This happened today lol
